Emotionally Healthy Relationships 03/22/2026

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Then why can't you accept it? That why can't you accept that you have been redeemed? Why do you walk around carrying shame as if Jesus didn't go to the cross? His first thought on that cross, a thought so powerful enough that he voiced it, wasn't about, God, take this pain. Father, take this pain. He said, father, forgive them for they know not what they do. [01:00:18] (37 seconds)  #ReceiveRedemption Download clip

So I say that unto you. What is unforgiveness doing to you and to your relationships? Relationships? Are you letting it affect you? Are you hurting your wife with your words? Are you hurting your husband because of unforgiveness? Marriage is hard. Yes. But God ordained it, and he ordained it to be beautiful, to move in the same rhythm. And if it's not with your spouse, with your sibling, a friend, with your pastor, with the church leaders, You gotta let that go. You gotta flush that out and learn how to forgive. [01:26:13] (59 seconds)  #LetGoAndForgive Download clip

And I said, God, I have a lot of hurts, a lot of pain. Help me. Take this out right now because it's not gonna govern my life. Take this hurt out of my life. It's not gonna govern me. And I expected a process of healing and restoration, and there was. But that pain and that hurt evaporated instantly because I dared called out to the one who stood on that cross and pleaded for forgiveness. My heart didn't harbor any anger. The anger and the hurt did not control me. [01:23:37] (44 seconds)  #HealingThroughTheCross Download clip

Oh, my loves. Forgiveness is not really for them. Forgiveness is for you. Forgiving them will free you, will deliver you. The enemy won't no longer have a foothold to bring you down or to break you. There have been people in my life that I've loved, loved, loved so dearly and who have hurt me, who have broken me, who have pushed me aside, who have forgotten about our relationship, our love. Man, that hurt. [01:15:52] (51 seconds)  #ForgivenessFreesYou Download clip

There is power in forgiveness. This beginning of healing is forgiving, letting go. It's not gonna erase your hurt in a sense where you grow and you learn from it. Right? How many people have foolishly entered relationships that they shouldn't? And then when your heart gets stomped on, it's like, okay. Okay, Lord. You're right. Keep restoring me. Jesus, please help me. But in the midst of that, you learn how to protect your heart and protect your emotions so you won't make that mistake again. [01:17:16] (49 seconds)  #PowerOfForgiveness Download clip

Don't give the enemy the key to your mind. Do not give him that power. Your mind is very powerful. Every action that you ever done in your whole existence has started in your mind as a thought. Even if something as simple as picking up this water bottle and opening it and taking a zip. That started with the thought. That's the power of the mind. [01:10:18] (38 seconds)  #GuardYourMind Download clip

And for a long time, I let his words, his lying words, his insecurity Cover me. What? I rebuke that. I remembered who I was, and I got up. And I spoke with authority. I said, man, I rebuke the devil. I rebuke these thoughts. I rebuke the negativity that has been spoken over my life for his words. I rebuke his intention. The negativity spoken over me. I bind that right now. [01:22:58] (38 seconds)  #RebukeTheLies Download clip

We feel indignified, and I'm not saying that you weren't wrong, But holding on to that, reliving it in your mind gives the enemy power to rob your peace. You're like, go ahead. Go ahead, devil. Take my peace. Has it ever happened to you? It happens to me. Where I could be eating something random or just sitting there and boom, that conversation with a certain person or what that certain person did came up and I'm like I get mad all over again. Right? And I'm no longer at peace eating my taco. I'm mad. [01:09:27] (42 seconds)  #ProtectYourPeace Download clip

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